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AUBURN — Lee-Scott Academy has announced the hiring of Clay McCall as the school’s new Executive Director of Athletics.
McCall comes to Lee-Scott from Bob Jones High School in Madison, where he has been the Patriots’ athletic director for this school year.
McCall is no stranger to the Auburn-Opelika area. He served as the athletic director for Auburn City Schools for 10 years, during which time he was named Athletic Director of the Year by the Alabama High School Athletic Directors and Coaches Association for the 2013-14 school year and was presented with the State Award of Merit by the National Interscholastic Athletic Administrators Association in 2015. Prior to his time as Athletic Director, McCall served as Auburn High School’s assistant principal for six years. Before he entered the world of educational administration, McCall was a teacher and coach. After resigning as head football coach at Plainview High School in Georgia, he finished a 13-year career coaching football and track.
“Few athletics directors have established such an impressive and strong record of success in athletics, in the classroom and throughout the community,” said LSA School Head Dr. Stan Cox. “The bar is incredibly high at Lee-Scott Academy, and we have found in Clay a highly intelligent and effective leader. The athletic landscape at Lee-Scott Academy is changing, and we were firmly committed to finding an athletics director who would lead us with confidence and innovative thinking into the future. Clay McCall possesses all the qualities we had envisioned — and more — and I am thrilled to welcome Clay and his family to our Lee-Scott family.”
“I first want to thank my Lord and Savior Jesus Christ for the opportunity to join the Lee-Scott family,” McCall said. “I look forward to working under the leadership of Dr. Cox and working beside our administration, teachers, coaches and support staff to enhance and impact our students in a positive manner on a daily basis. It is an exciting time as Lee-Scott Athletics enters into the AHSAA. I am honored and blessed to be part of this journey.”
McCall and his wife, Michele, have been married for 26 years. They have two daughters, Reagan, who lives in Birmingham, and Mallory, a freshman at Troy University.
Lee-Scott Academy’s athletic department will transition to competing in the Alabama High School Athletic Association (AHSAA) in all athletic sports starting in the 2024-25 academic year. For nearly 40 years, the Warriors have competed athletically in the Alabama Independent School Association (AISA). Starting next school year, the Warriors will compete among the member schools of the AHSAA. In all other facets, including academically and in arts, Lee-Scott Academy will remain a private school member of the AlSA.